Natural Resources committee  Yes, we can provide that.

Natural Resources committee  Mr. Chair, we have invested almost $100 million in the forestry sector in order to increase production of these energy sources. Our colleague, Jim Farrell, assistant deputy minister for the forestry sector, could describe that program in more detail. We do have such programs to s

Natural Resources committee  I can give you some more details and come back with more information in this regard. I have some notes here, in English. What budget 2010 announced was the next-generation renewable power initiative. It provides $100 million over four years to support advanced clean energy techn

Natural Resources committee  This is what we in our department call a horizontal project. It involves the forestry sector as well as other sectors, and energy experts. I could come back with more information on the strategies being considered. After I have consulted my colleague Jim Farrell, assistant deputy

Natural Resources committee  In fact, we're very interested in geothermal. I should say that my other job, as the chair said, is the assistant deputy minister of the earth sciences sector, which includes the Geological Survey of Canada. One of the things that we're doing in the Geological Survey of Canada ri

Natural Resources committee  Mr. Chair, again, that's really the purpose of going through...the fact that we have fixed-term funding, that we have to then go through an evaluation. Part of the evaluation is to see exactly how effective the programs have been, what the cost has been, what the results have bee

Natural Resources committee  Again, we'll undertake to get back and provide to you what we have.

Natural Resources committee  It's always awkward for us, because of course we could always spend more money and we could always have bigger programs. We think obviously this is a valuable area in which to invest. The issue is that at some point we have a fixed budget and we have to prioritize. We are spendin

Natural Resources committee  Yes. In fact, we can get back to you and get details. We do track all of our programs and we have got them broken out. We can provide that information.

Natural Resources committee  I would simply like to add that we will see that this is truly a Canada-wide program, meaning that it is present everywhere in the country. And we have had considerable demand throughout Canada.

Natural Resources committee  Yes, in fact there has. For each of these programs, we go in and we calculate the megatons, for example, of GHG that will be reduced from it. Just to give you an example, I'll ask Carol to talk a little bit about some of the energy efficiency programs and some of the measuremen

Natural Resources committee  Thank you, M. Chair. First of all, we sincerely would like to thank the committee for inviting us here today to discuss Canada's ecoENERGY initiative. During the first hour, we will be covering all of the programs, and during the second hour, we will provide you with a more deta

Environment committee  I'd have to say we'd be kind of hesitant to comment on all projects in that sense.

Environment committee  Again, I think we would be hesitant to get into that, just because our role really is to work with others to understand the groundwater and once it gets into the permitting phase and things like that—

Environment committee  No. I would have to say that we haven't actually looked at that.